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Why am I getting this output?

Hi guys,

In this program for school (it's part of a bigger problem where I have to shuffle a deck)... I have to store every possible playing-card combination in an ArrayList. Now, I am a fairly new programmer, but honestly, the output here baffles me. What am I doing wrong?

Re: Why am I getting this output?

I havent played around with switches, but I have a possible suggestion. What could be happening is the break statement is breaking the switch, not the loop. So we want to break the loop. This means we need to label the loop and tell the break statement to break it.